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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 01/11] ARM: sunxi: smp: Move assembly code into a file
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 07:25:15PM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 7:17 PM, Maxime Ripard
> <maxime.ripard@bootlin.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:12:41AM +0800, Chen-Yu Tsai wrote:
> >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 5:50 AM, Mylène Josserand
> >> <mylene.josserand@bootlin.com> wrote:
> >> > Move the assembly code for cluster cache enabling and resuming
> >> > into an assembly file instead of having it directly in C code.
> >> >
> >> > Remove the CFLAGS because we are using the ARM directive "arch"
> >> > instead.
> >> >
> >> > Signed-off-by: Mylène Josserand <mylene.josserand@bootlin.com>
> >> > ---
> >> > arch/arm/mach-sunxi/Makefile | 4 +--
> >> > arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S | 80 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >> > arch/arm/mach-sunxi/mc_smp.c | 82 +++----------------------------------------
> >> > 3 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 81 deletions(-)
> >> > create mode 100644 arch/arm/mach-sunxi/headsmp.S
> >>
> >> I'm still not convinced about this whole "move ASM to separate
> >> file" thing, especially now that you aren't actually adding any
> >> sunxi-specific ASM code beyond a simple function call.
> >>
> >> Could you drop this for now?
> >
> > I'd really like to have this merged actually. There's a significant
> > readibility improvement, so even if there's no particular functional
> > improvement, I'd still call it a win.
>
> What parts do you consider hard to read? The extra quotes? Trailing
> newline? Or perhaps the __stringify bits?

All of this, plus the clobbers and operands.

Maxime

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Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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